Through several shell companies acting in secret, the factory district where Titan Environmental was located fell into the hands of Tang Shizhe.
Following a bidding process, ten selected construction companies began moving into the industrial park.
All roads leading to the industrial park were sealed off, and countless construction vehicles began to pour into this massive site.
It was only then that those who had sold their factories realized that the company that had acquired them was none other than the high-profile Titan Environmental! Had they known it was this company, they would have demanded more money; after all, Titan Environmental was incredibly wealthy.
After notifying the local municipal departments, the area was officially renamed the Titan Environmental Industrial Park.
In Tang Shizhe's plan, the walls between the factories in this area would be demolished, with each large block surrounded by roads becoming an independent sub-factory zone.
The perimeter of each sub-factory zone would be enclosed by three-meter-high walls topped with fifty-centimeter-high electric fences, with each zone connected to the surrounding areas by bridges, and underground tunnels to be constructed in the future.
In this way, all the factory areas were divided into eight sub-zones: A, B, D, E, F, G, and H.
All factory areas would be renovated according to the current Titan Environmental facility, increasing green space and modifying the exterior appearance of the buildings, while the sealing and structural integrity of the factories would also be reinforced.
A swarm of DJI drones, controlled by software programmed by the Splitters, would work in tandem with ground patrol vehicles to handle security for the entire park.
A total of one thousand cameras were scattered throughout every corner of the industrial park, and eight watchtowers and checkpoints would be built at the eight entrances to the park to monitor all incoming vehicles and prevent any dangers from entering.
Out of consideration for the fact that Titan Environmental had become the largest enterprise in Jiaodong City, the city hall turned a blind eye to everything the company did.
What? You say they built watchtowers? Those are merely large observation decks.
What? You're filing a formal report that they are building checkpoints at the intersections? No, no, those are public service stations built in cooperation with our city hall, primarily to help lost travelers and assist in checking vehicles for damage.
What, you're also reporting that their security guards are wearing heavy riot gear and carrying batons and shields? No, no, those security personnel are just engaging in cosplay.
The advantages of being a leading enterprise are just that obvious, and with the added status of being a multi-national joint venture with such strong growth momentum, it was only a matter of time before this company became a world-class giant.
By then, the political achievements of keeping them in Jiaodong City would be immense! Think of the taxes they would pay after the three-year tax exemption period!
Under the glow of these halos, Titan Environmental was given the green light for everything it wanted to do.
While Titan Environmental was expanding wildly, a company named Titan Biotechnology was quietly established in the neighboring city of Danning.
The company had a registered capital of 480 million, with all shares held by Titan Group, and it immediately acquired a local contract battery manufacturing plant, retaining some of the factory's original elite employees.
At the same time, a large number of orders were sent out from this newly acquired factory, and Titan Biotechnology began waving its cash around to purchase various equipment across the country.
Because the battery structure Tang Shizhe intended to release was extremely simple, the production equipment was actually very basic; the same production lines used to manufacture the Purification Tree could produce 500,000 batteries per day.
The equipment purchased now was merely a smokescreen, and some of the R&D equipment was bought just to gather dust.
However, the outside world, which was keeping a close eye on Titan Group, did not think so; they only noticed that Titan Group had suddenly used its newly received dividends to establish a new subsidiary.
And this subsidiary had acquired a contract battery factory as soon as it was founded.
Just when everyone thought Titan Biotechnology intended to enter the contract manufacturing industry, they began purchasing large quantities of battery research equipment all over the country.
Although they were all second-hand machines and the technology was not exactly cutting-edge, it still caught the attention of the world's battery industry giants.
What was this Titan Biotechnology trying to do? Were they crazy? A company doing biotechnology jumping into batteries—diversification shouldn't be that erratic, right?
However, they shouldn't be able to research any battery technology in the short term; after all, the battery industry was already riddled with patent barriers and required massive costs for experimentation and research.
Within a few years, this Titan Biotechnology would definitely not amount to much. Even if they threw all the money they earned from Titan Environmental at poaching technical personnel, the industry would have already launched more advanced battery technologies to the market in a few years' time.
They could not have guessed that Titan Biotechnology had no intention of launching new batteries in the short term, but this was simply Tang Shizhe buying time to lay the groundwork.
During this period, Titan Environmental would gradually publish several viewpoints regarding bio-batteries under the company's name.
Just as Titan Biotechnology was being perfected in an orderly fashion under the leadership of the Splitters, a milestone event for Titan Group occurred on the third basement level of the Titan Environmental office building.
The third basement level of the Titan Environmental office building.
Half of the entire third basement level had been isolated, with a large amount of black gold plating tightly wrapping this half of the space.
The only way to access this space was through a ten-meter-long, narrow corridor, with walls of reinforced concrete ten meters thick on both sides.
In this oversized, tightly sealed room stood rows of server cabinets, with numerous water pipes and cables extending from the tops of the cabinets into the ceiling.
That's right, these cabinets were the supercomputer that Tang Shizhe had assembled by secretly purchasing parts.
Although its computing power couldn't even make the world rankings, it was at least enough to meet Tang Shizhe's daily needs.
The water pipes used to cool these mainframes were connected to an underground river to ensure the temperatures of these machines would not skyrocket.
In addition to these water-cooling pipes, there was a high-power chiller, with the heat exhaust pipes leading directly to an artificial lake in the park above ground.
This mainframe was finally completed today, and all software had been fully debugged.
Outside the corridor leading to the server room was the control center for this supercomputer.
Aside from a large screen, every wall in the control center was covered with monitors, and the room was filled with fifty computers and their corresponding desks and chairs.
At maximum capacity, this control room could accommodate one hundred people operating simultaneously, allowing the computing power of the Splitters to be utilized to its fullest.
Currently, this supercomputer was not being used to provide calculations for the Splitters' scientific research, but for a specific purpose.
That was to scan and monitor activity on the internet, with the keywords being "Titan," "Environmental," "Purification Tree," "Siman," "Victor," and "Tang Shizhe."
Once information related to these terms was scanned, it could be captured immediately.